Improvement in butter-workers



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Butter-Workef.

Patented Feb. 2,1875.

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Attorneys THE GRAPHIC cu. mom 4:1.29; FARR PLAcnNrn UNITED STATES PATENTGrrron JOHN O. RORIOK, OF WAUSEON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER WORKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent 1510159355, dated February2, 1875 2 application d September 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. RORIOK, of Wauseon, in the county of Fultonand State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inButter-VVorkers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and. operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a side view of mybutter-worker. Fig. 2 is a bottom view, and Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional view, of the same.

This invention relates especially to improvements on the butter-workerfor which Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date on the 9th dayof June, 1874.; and it consists in a certain novel arrangement andcombination of devices wherebyI obtain a vertical butterworker in whichthe butter can be fed into the hopper through the side of the samewithout removing the plunger; at the same time provision is made forsupporting the worker upon a vat, and also for readily removing thescreen through which the butter is forced, as will be fully understoodfrom the following descrip tion.

In the annexed drawing, A designates a rectangular box, and B a hopperor feed-hole, through which the butter is put into the box. J designatesa plunger, which is vertically movable in the box A by means of a lever,E, and a connecting-link, D. The lever E has its fulcrum on the upperend of a standard, E,

and it allows the power to be applied to the plunger J to a much betterad vantage than could be done if this lever moved horizontally.

G designates a wire screen, which is secured in a suitable manner to astrong frame, G, which latter is held in close contact against thebottom of the box A by means of hooked clamps a a, the stems, to a ofwhich pass up through two bars, F F, and receive nuts on them. Byloosening the nuts hooks a a can be turned around, and the screen Grremoved from the box A and cleaned. The bars F F are rigidly secured tothe sides of the box A, and are of sufficient length to afford goodsupports for the box A upon a vat or other vessel suitable to receivethe butter.

In the process of grading butter it is necessary to finely comminute itby forcing it through a sieve or screen. This operation is repeateduntil it is homogeneous in quality and color.

If the screen through which the butter is forced is vertical the smallstreams of butter will fall together, and the Work will be veryimperfectly done. If the screen is horizontal, as I have shown anddescribed, the grading can be accomplished in a very perfect manner, andwith few passages of the butter through the screen.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the box A, having a feed-opening, B, in its side,and a verticallymovable plunger, J, the horizontal screen Gr, confinedby hooks a a, and the long supporting-bars F F, as described and shown.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN G. RORIOK.

Witnesses:

S. F. WHITING, W. H. KELLEY.

